In search of the Hamat'sa [electronic resource] : a tale of headhunting / written, shot, edited & directed by Aaron Glass ; produced in the Program for Culture and Media, Dept. of Anthropology at New York University.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Glass, Aaron., Director, Screenwriter.

New York University. Program in Culture & Media., Producer.

Documentary Educational Resources (Firm), Distributor.

Series:

Ethnographic video online.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kwakiutl Indians--British Columbia--Rites and ceremonies.

Kwakiutl Indians.

Indians of North America--British Columbia--Rites and ceremonies.

Indians of North America.

Cannibalism.

Visual anthropology.

Ethnology--Research.

Ethnology.

Genre:

Ethnographic films.

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video (33 min.) : sd., col.

Other Title:

Tale of headhunting

Place of Publication:

Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, 2004.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Traces the history of anthropological depictions of the Hamat'sa or Cannibal Dance, and, through the return of archival materials to a First Nations community, presents some of the ways in which diverse attitudes toward this history inform current performances of the Hamat'sa. With a secondary focus on the filmmaker's fieldwork experience, the film also attends specifically to the ethics of ethnographic representation and to the renegotiation of relationships between anthropologists, museums and their research subjects. Filmed during the course of research for Glass's dissertation in Socio-Cultural Anthropology.

Notes:

Title from title frames (Ethnographic video online, viewed on Nov. 4, 2011).

Previously released on DVD.

Recorded in British Columbia, Canada.

Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2010. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.